Good morning readers,
Our great nation turns 74 today. While it is common knowledge that India became independent on August 15, 1947, it remained a dominion of the British Empire till 1950, which means it was "equal in status" but had an "allegiance to the crown". Read all about it here.
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India reached out to the Chinese Central Military Commission to resolve the border crisis as South Block feels that diplomatic and military positions have hardened on both sides. India said it expects the Chinese side to “sincerely work” towards the objective of complete disengagement and de-escalation.
Meanwhile, President Ram Nath Kovind, who did not name China, said “while the world community needs to fight together against the greatest challenge before humanity, some in our neighbourhood tried to carry out their misadventure of expansion”.
From The Front Page
Today's lead edit on the conviction of lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan for criminal contempt for two tweets criticising the chief justice and the court says the Supreme Court's 108-page order can, and will, be read as the court showing a thin skin and wielding the offence of contempt to constrict the fundamental freedom of expression.
Faizan Mustafa answers the questions: Does this differ from previous rulings? How does it compare with the way other democracies have dealt with contempt?
Bringing down the curtains on a month-long political drama in Rajasthan, the Ashok Gehlot government won a confidence motion in the state Assembly through a voice vote. Moving the Motion of Confidence, a Congress lawmaker compared the Centre to Mughal Emperor Akbar and the Congress government to Maharana Pratap..
"If it weren’t for Covid and the lockdown, they would have been in school and their hostels… they would have probably been around today.” Among the 56 killed in the Munnar landslide include 10 children. Eight more are still missing.
The tricolour flying high at the Red Fort in New Delhi. (
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In what is likely to derail the peace process with the Nagaland government, NSCN (I-M) chief Th Muivah has said that their Naga flag and constitution were non-negotiable and that the Naga Framework Agreement of 2015 included the idea of unification of all Naga-inhabited areas, across Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said that the Union government took “not one or two, but 50 historic decisions to transform the face of the region” after Article 370 was abrogated in 2019.
The Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the transfer of Rs 57,128 crore as surplus — or dividend — to the central government for accounting year 2019-20, sharply lower by 67.5 per cent from Rs 1.76 lakh last year.
ICYMI
- Militants targeted a police party in Srinagar that left two policemen dead and another injured.
- The National Green Tribunal held four companies responsible for the “gas chamber”-like conditions in Mumbai’s Ambapada, Mahul and Chembur.
- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his six cabinet colleagues, who visited the site of the plane crash in Kozhikode, went into quarantine.
- Pilgrimage to the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine at the Trikuta Hills near Katra will resume from Sunday, with restrictions on the number of pilgrims.
- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested four more persons accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case.
And Finally...
The Rashtrapati Bhavan’s At Home function, on the occasion of Independence Day, will be different this year. While the guest list has been pruned from more than 1,200 to 90, among those invited include hospital owners, doctors, nurses, midwife, an MCD worker, a crematorium staff and a sanitation worker.
Delhi Confidential: Days after former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad spoke out against the Indian government on Kashmir, which was lauded by Pakistan PM Imran Khan, New Delhi hit back.
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Liu Chuen Chen
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